page_title: Ingatestone
section_title: Places of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Ingatestone / Places of interest
caption_attribution_description: Ingatestone Hall
context_page_description: Ingatestone is a village in Essex, England, with a population of about 5,000. To the immediate north lies the village of Fryerning and together the two form the civil parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning. Ingatestone lies within Metropolitan Green Belt land 20 miles north-east of London. The built-up area is largely situated between the A12 trunk road and the Great Eastern Main Railway Line. Today, it is an affluent commuter village.
context_section_description: Ingatestone Hall has been the home of the Petre family since the 16th century, who reside there to this day. The location was chosen due to the similarity of the village's Latin name with their own. A tomb monument to members of the family is located in the parish church of St Edmund and St Mary's.
  The hall is currently open as a tourist attraction. It largely retains its Tudor appearance following restoration carried out between 1915 and 1937, and is set in formal gardens surrounded by eleven acres of grounds. Inside is a range of antique furniture, paintings and other historical artefacts. Queen Elizabeth I spent several nights at the hall on her Royal Progress of 1561. 
  St. John Payne, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, resided at Ingatestone Hall in the late 16th century as chaplain and steward for Lady Petre. He was martyred at Chelmsford in 1582. The smallpox inoculator, Daniel Sutton, made his base on Ingatestone High Street in Brandiston House, and carried out much of his work here.
caption: Ingatestone Hall: seat of the Petre family since Tudor times.
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